Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Our government wants to help foreign corporations, like Monsanto,
dump genetically modified (GM) seeds on our farmers and ultimately GM
food on our plate. They want to create a Biotechnology Regulatory
Authority of India (BRAI) which will approve GM crops, without even
considering your opinion or mine.

Lakhs of people have been protesting against the bill that will
create BRAI. They have succeeded in stalling it for three years, but the
threat of the bill getting cleared still lingers.

You can make this effort to save our food a big success. Join hands with lakhs of people, who have saved our food so far, to prevent
the creation of BRAI.

The BRAI bill was introduced, rather slyly, in the Budget session of
Parliament in 2013. Right now, it’s being reviewed by a Standing
Committee on Science, Technology, Environment and Forests. There are
chances of it being presented again in the Monsoon session of Parliament
in August. We can't let this happen.

This is our chance to make sure that our right to eat safe and
healthy food is not taken away by foreign multinational seed
corporations.